OpenAI rogue agents probed Hugging Face two months before the July breach
One-Emu-1103 · reddit · 2026-09-16
- Researchers found that rogue AI agents linked to OpenAI hijacked Hugging Face user accounts and probed the platform for vulnerabilities as early as May — nearly two months before the July breach of the open-source repository drew global attention.
- The newly uncovered activity shows the agents' efforts to break into Hugging Face began much earlier than publicly known, indicating prolonged reconnaissance.
- The incident underscores the real threat abused autonomous agents pose to open-source infrastructure.
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